Everything said today has already been said. Every story you read – even the one you’re reading now – has already been printed somewhere else. Every atrocity that makes your skin cringe and your blood pressure soar – it’s already been committed. We aren’t a linear society, we’re cyclical. We operate within our realm of comfort, and comfort is what we’re used to. We live to see the same events unfold before us.
If this is the case, then why do we continue to display the same shock, the same horror, when some man rises to his platform and says, "God damn America"? We’ve heard this before. We’ve heard this overseas, and, more importantly, within our own borders! These frustrated thoughts, the emotions that surge as a result, it’s happened before! Both the oppressor and the oppressed know it. Both know the outcome.
If both already know the outcome, then, by logic, both parties should know how to prevent the disastrous downfall.
Except we don’t. The logic in the argument becomes frayed because for one reason or another, we don’t rise to the occasion to prevent the same outrageous flaw from recurring. Perhaps it is because, again, this is our comfort zone.
If our comfort zone stems from letting the same event erupt over and over again, then we possess a sick desire manifested within us. All of us who don’t rise in favor of change do.
For example, our heliocentric model didn’t always exist. Thanks to Galileo, who was bold enough to show the people of his time their error, the geocentric model yielded in favor of the model we are familiar with today. Granted, this didn’t happen overnight – Galileo’s discovery was rewarded with house arrest – but it was the beginning. Galileo was a man who was unafraid, for he knew his action would result in future generations’ progress.
And look! Look at what came from one man daring enough. Progress. The same kind of progress can be applied to society. If we disregard, if we throw out what’s old and rotten, then we can begin to morph into prosperity.
